Person report

★01 Jan 1914
The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the U.S. state of Florida became the first scheduled airline using a winged aircraft.

★07 May 1940
A three-day debate began in the British House of Commons, which resulted in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill.

★12 May 1942
World War II: Soviet forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launched a major offensive in eastern Ukraine, only to be encircled and destroyed by German troops two weeks later.

★19 Oct 1943
Allied aircraft sank the German cargo ship Sinfra, killing over 2,000 people, mostly Italian POWs.

★07 Aug 1944
IBM presented the first program-controlled calculator to Harvard University, after which it became known as the Mark I.

★01 Jan 1945
Second World War: The Luftwaffe launched Operation Bodenplatte in an attempt to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries.

★14 Dec 1948
American physicists Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann were awarded a patent for their cathode-ray tube amusement device, the first interactive electronic game.

★22 Jan 1957
New York City police arrested George Metesky, better known as the "Mad Bomber", for planting over 30 bombs over 16 years throughout the city.

★10 Mar 1959
An anti-Chinese uprising began as thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace in Lhasa to prevent the Dalai Lama from leaving or being removed by the Chinese army.

★06 Jul 1971
As a result of his visits to several Asian communist countries, Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania's leader gave a speech on a number of Neo-Stalinist and socialist realist ideals, which became known as the July Theses.

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